." Are "our side's" people smugglers good and the other side's evil?
My country, Australia, is currently pursuing what can only be described as a neo-Fascist policy toward refugees. Our government does not seem to care how cruelly it treats refugees arriving in its territorial waters. This policy will assuredly change. But in the meantime we are stuck with leaders whose callousness rivals that of the Nazis in their earlier years.
It is impossible for the richer nations to fling open their gates and accept all refugees. But if we do not begin to treat these unfortunate people in a more humane way and make every effort to find a place for many of them in our midst, we will surely lose the little humanity that we have left. We will, in a word, all sink together: upside down at the bottom of the world.
* パルバースさんのオピニオンは今回が最終回です。
Shukan ST: Feb. 27, 2004
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- Upside down at the bottom of the world
- 世界の下で逆さまになって
- tumbler
- コップ
- evil
- 悪
- even with the best will and the most keen analysis
- 精一杯頑張り、最高に鋭い分析をしても
- malady
- 病気
- in my book
- 私の見るところでは
- is just citing a symptom and calling it a disease
- 一つの症状を取り上げ病気と呼んでいるにすぎない
- is plaguing
- 苦しめている
- unbridgeable gap
- 埋めようのない溝
- consciousness
- 意識
- eliminate
- なくす
- 〜 who would like nothing more than to be able to live in their own countries
- 自国で暮らすことができればそれだけで満足だという〜
- seek
- 求める
- refuge
- 避難所
- This has been going on since the beginning of time
- これは有史以来続いている
- ancestors
- 祖先
- refugees
- 難民
- downtrodden
- しいたげられて
- persecuted
- 迫害されて
- only to find themselves treated with disdain and cruelty
- だが、軽べつされ、残酷な扱いを受けるだけという結果になる
- passage
- 脱出
- people smugglers
- 密入国請負業者
- alleged crimes
- いわゆる犯罪
- blatant
- 見え透いた
- hypocrisy
- 偽善
- evident
- 明白な
- has turned us 〜 into 〜
- 〜のわれわれを〜に変えた
- affluent
- 裕福な
- self-righteous bigots
- 独善的で偏狭な人間
- oppression
- 圧制
- fleeing 〜
- 〜を逃れた
- (are)occupying the moral low ground
- 道徳的に見て分が悪い
- Jews
- ユダヤ人
- were spirited out of 〜
- 〜からこっそり連れ出された
- altruism
- 利他主義
- greed
- 欲
- (were)executed
- 処刑された
- courageous
- 勇気がある
- are locked up
- 監禁される
- authorities
- 当局
- release
- 解放
- on humanitarian ground
- 人道的理由で
- (is)pursuing
- 推進する
- territorial waters
- 領海
- assuredly
- 確実に
- are stuck with 〜
- 〜と縁を切れない
- callousness rivals that of 〜
- 〜の非情さと変わらない非情さ
- fling open
- 開け放つ